PLANS FOR 1924 FAIR

ARE NOW UNDER WAY

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Full Race Program Planned for Next Year. Expected That This Will Be Big

Drawing Card.

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CIRCUS BLEACHERS

TO BE ADDED TO GRANDSTAND

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Possible That Additional Buildings Will Be Erected. Talk of Women’s Building.

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The success of the Brown County fair still lingers in the minds of those who were present and the management is preparing for the big event next year. For a number of years a full race program has not been a portion of the amusement events, but next year it is proposed to have a full card of races. This year the track was put in passable condition and a number of races were pulled off. This was an added attraction and the management feel that the attendance was increased by reason of the several races, which were held each day of the fair.

Will Join Circuit.

Although it is rather early at this time to plan definitely for the race program next year, it is proposed that the local society join a race circuit, which will insure that a string of good horses will enter the events. It is not improbable that a number of local enthusiasts will get into the game and purchase some fleet-footed animals. Wm. Huevelmann, the old racehorse king, may by a little persuasion be enticed to again take up his old pastime of following the circuit with a good horse. Dr. J. H. Vogel and J. P. Graff can be counted upon to have several good nags.

Put Track in Good Shape.

The track will be placed in excellent condition prior to next year’s fair, and there is no question, if a good race card is arranged each day of the fair, but that the attendance will be perceptibly increased.

Fireworks Spectacle.

The evening program at the county fair is about as big a drawing card as is the afternoon attractions. The crowds in the evening are increasing each year, and it is planned to give them something, extra next year. At the present time it is proposed to arrange for a big fireworks spectacle next year, upon the plan of those at the State fair. “The Burning of Rome,” “Destruction of Pompeii,” and the “World War Scenes,” is an illustration of what is being considered. This year two spectacles were arranged in the nature of the “Battle of Jutland” and “Indian Warfare.” These were excellent reproductions,but it is proposed to give a much larger production next year. The fireworks program at the New UIm fair is among the best in this part of the state and is one of the really big features of the fair.

Add Bleachers to Grand Stand.

Secretary Wm. A. Lindemann states that it is proposed to add circus bleachers to the grand stand next year and this will provide seating capacity for the thousands, who were unable to secure places in the grand stand each afternoon and evening of the fair this year, as well as in former years.

Other Fairs.

Those, who are of the opinion that the local fair does not come up to standard, should visit fairs held in nearby counties and compare the Brown county fair with those. Those, who have, are of the opinion that the Brown county fair is one of the best in this part of the state. The free acts and fireworks this year have any-]thing beat a mile, that has been seen in this section of Minnesota. Give the fair a boost The success of the Brown County fair still lingers in the minds of those who were present and the management is preparing for the big event next year. For a number of years a full race program has not been a portion of the amusement events, but next year it is proposed to have a full card of races. This year the track was put in passable condition and a number of races were pulled off. This was an added attraction and the management feel that the attendance was increased by reason of the several races, which were held each day of the fair.

Brown County Journal

Dec. 14, 1923

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DEBATE AT HIGH SCHOOL TONIGHT

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Lake Crystal Team Will Come to New Ulm to Engage Local Team

at High Auditorium.

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FIRST ELIMINATION

OF DISTRICT CONTEST

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Local Team Composed of

Howard Vogel, Erna

Grussendorf and Hilda Steinmetz.

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The first elimination of the district contest, under the auspices of the State Debating league, will be held this evening at the high school auditorium, when the New Ulm team tries for honors with the Lake Crystal debaters.

It is anticipated that a large crowd will be present upon this occasion to give the members of the local team encouragement.

Personnel of Team.

After much preliminary work the personnel of the New Ulm team was named. The members, are Howard Vogel, Erna Grussendorf and Hilda Steinmeltz, as was recently announced.

They entered upon the work of preparation for this evening’s debate several weeks ago and have the affirmative side of the question, “Resolved, that European Immigration Into the United States Should be Prohibited for a Period of Five Years.” The Lake Crystal team, composed of three boys,will uphold the negative side of the argument.

Sixteen Teams in District.

Sixteen teams in this congressional district have entered the contest. Fourteen will debate this evening, while the other two will hold the first preliminary next week. The teams are paired as follows: New Ulm and Lake Crystal; Sleepy Eye and Springfield; Tyler and Ivanhoe; Windom and St. James; Mankato and Wells; Amboy and Winnebago; Blue Earth and Elmore; Sherburne and Jackson.

Following the first elimination the remaining eight teams will be resolved into four teams, which will debate for the second elimination. There will remain two teams thereafter, which will be pitted against each other in the final district contest. The team winning the last elimination will be entered in the state elimination, to be held in Minneapolis in March.

The judges this evening will be Prof. Smith, principal, Mankato high school; Prof. Morris of the Mankato State Teachers college faculty and Prof. Johnson of Gustavus Adolphus college at St. Peter.

Brown County Journal,

Dec. 14, 1923

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DRAINAGE

DESTROYS WILD LIFE OF STATE

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Nesting Places for Fowl and

Habitat of Fur Animals

Militated Against by Drainage.

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GAME LEAGUE AROUSED OVER PRESENT STATUS

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Restoration of Land Sought-

Drainage One of State’s

Biggest Problems.

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Artificial drainage, directly and indirectly, is diminishing Minnesota’s wild life at a rate that has alarmed the sportsmen and conservationists of this state, says a special writer in the St. Paul Dispatch. It has wiped out the nesting and feeding ground of ducks and geese and has removed the attraction to migrating wild fowl. It has destroyed the natural habitat of valuable fur-bearers and many small game animals. It has ruined the spawning beds of millions of game fishes and has lowered the lakes and streams to the point of destroying millions more. It has created a fire hazard, and the flames, sweeping unchecked through the swamps and forests, have taken their toll of big game and small.

Drainage One of

Biggest Problems.

Drainage is one of the most difficult problems confronting the state game and fish department today, according to J. F. Gould, commissioner. The condition of Minnesota’s lakes and streams during the past summer has been so destructive to wild life that sportsmen in all parts of the state have petitioned the department to build more dams to retain the water.

Emphasizing that wild life depends more on the conservation of water areas than on any other one factor, Carlos Avery, former state game and fish commissioner, asserts that.” the effort to drain and reclaim wet or overflowed lands is being extended to such an extreme that it has become almost a mania and has reached that point that the very existence of water-fowl is threatened and the fish supply is being reduced at an alarming rate.”

Game League is Aroused.

The Minnesota, Game Protective league in a convention at Fergus Falls reaffirmed its endorsement of a proposed amendment to the drainage laws of the state to provide that in all drainage projects it shall be necessary to serve copies of the petition on the state game and fish department, the State Forestry board and the State Timber board, whereupon they shall become parties to the proceedings and shall be in a position to retard unwise projects. The league also adopted the following resolution:

“Resolved, that the Minnesota Game Protective league, in convention assembled, condemns the program of indiscriminate and destructive drainage to which the natural resources particularly the wild life resources – of state and nation have been sacrificed, and hereby records its firm opposition to a continuation of that program and to the general policy of draining the lakes, streams and marshes inhabited by wildlife for the purpose of acquiring additional non-essential arable lands, while vast areas requiring no drainage lie idle and untilled.”

Izaak Walton League Active.

No problem has been tackled more energetically by the Izaak Walton League of America than that of drainage. It has launched a nation-wide campaign against the project to drain the Winneshiek bottoms of the Upper Mississippi – famous black bass spawning ground and wild life habitat – and has carried its fight to congress. Minnesota chapters of the league also are united in a fight against the indiscriminate drainage program which has robbed this state of much of its resources.

Organized sportsmen of Minnesota, as a whole, strenuously are opposed to a continuation of the drainage policy which has prevailed in the past, and are launching a campaign not only for the preservation of necessary lakes and marshes, but also for the restoration of water and marsh areas that have been destroyed without suitable gain.

Restoration of Land Sought.

Investigations have been carried on during the past summer by the bureau of biological survey, United States Department of Agriculture, to determine the feasibility of restoring to its natural state a considerable area of drained land in Northwestern Minnesota. It involves the territory in Roseau and Marshall counties contiguous to Roseau, Thief and Mud lakes, the Thief river and other tributary streams and ditches.

Concerning the passing of wild life habitat in that part of the state, former Commissioner Avery has set forth:

“The present calamitous situation might have been averted had the people of Minnesota had the foresight to have prevented consummation of the vast enterprises which effaced the Thief lake, Mud lake and Roseau lake, nesting areas in the northwestern part of the state, where within a generation veritable millions of wild ducks, geese and shore birds were bred and reared, and where opportunities for shooting were incomparable.

Districts Have Not Benefited.

“The calamity of the loss of the bird life would be minimized had these drainage projects undertaken by counties, judicial districts and the state resulted in marked benefit to agriculture, but they have not. Little dependable tillable land has been added. Most of the area drained is yet subject to occasional inundations, making it precarious for farming and little actual benefit has accrued, while on the other hand, the cost of these enterprises, which has mounted to many millions of dollars, has virtually bankrupt a number of counties and has plunged farmers into hopeless obligations for loans and assessments. Even many land owners to whose holdings have been added great areas by accretions due to the drainage of lakes and marshes are eager for some plan or solution which will restore some of these drained lakes and perhaps relieve them of their heavy obligations.”

Throughout Minnesota the lakes this year have been abnormally low, the marshes have disappeared, and in many localities the rivers have gone bone dry. The situation relative to the conservation of fish life has been relieved in some cases by the dams which, in the past few years, have been constructed by the state game and fish department at the outlet from some of the larger lakes. There have been hundreds of petitions for the construction of similar dams in many parts of the state. But the department is handicapped not only by lack of funds, but also by legal obstacles which interfere with the acquisition of suitable sites.

The commissioner is not authorized to condemn and acquire land for the construction of dams where they may be needed, but must depend largely on the philanthropy of the landowners,which often is slow to come to the surface and which is not always apparent even in the petitions. Section 93A of the laws pertaining to wild animals provides that whenever one or more owners of land abutting on any of the public waters of this state shall present a proper petition to do so, the commissioner may authorize them to build a dam on their land and pay for it themselves. The petition must establish their ownership of the land, state whether the construction of a dam is necessary to maintain a uniform stage of water or conserve the fish supply, the approximate cost and the all-important fact that the petitioners are able and willing to finance the cost of construction and maintenance.

There is another section, however, which grants the commissioner a little more leeway in protecting commercial fishing. It provides that whenever he deems it necessary for the protection or conservation of fish he may construct a dam, install a fish screen, dig a channel, or make any other similar changes or improvement “in any of the waters of this state wherein licensed commercial fishing operations have been conducted, or in any stream, connected with such waters.”

Brown County Journal,

Dec 14, 1923

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TO KNOW FOLKS PLAY POKER

WITH THEM

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This Is the Advice of Miss Emma Redell, Assistant Secretary of M. &St. L.-Story of Rapid Rise of Only Woman in Land, Who Has Become Assistant Secretary,of a Railroad in This Country.-Gives Advice to Young Girls.

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“If I want to find out the real stuff in a man or woman, I find it more quickly in a poker game than any other way.”

No, this isn’t a professor of psychology speaking – none of your so-called students of human nature or of mental complexes – it’s a woman!

Miss Emma Redell, whose swift ascent in the business world took her from stenographer to assistant secretary of a big railroad system in 14 years – only woman in the world to hold such a position on a railroad – finds poker not only a stimulating recreation, but a valuable aid in business.

“There’s nothing more fascinating to me,” she says, “than -sh-h!-a little game of poker.”

Nominally, Miss Redell is assistant secretary of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad. Actually she is chief assistant and “right-hand man” to W.H. Bremner, the president, who calls her the “best man on the payroll” and all-around “trouble shooter” of the M. & St. L.

Like Running Home.

She believes there is a definite analogy between running railroad and managing a household.

“I’ve been a business woman all my life and haven’t had much experience in running a home,” she says, “but there cant be any difference if a household is managed correctly. Show me a man or woman who is discourteous and cold-blooded with employees and I’ll show you someone who isn’t very popular with members of his own family.”

Miss Redel1 declares there is no better avenue to success than stenography for the young woman entering business. At 16 she went to business college and then held stenographic positions with several firms before going with the M. & St. L. in 1908. In 1913 she was made chief clerk of the law department and in 1917 chief clerk to the president. And last year the board of directors made her assistant secretary of the road.

She gives the following advice to young girls who are learning stenography:

“Be an enthusiast and learn all the details in your office you can absorb.

“Never discuss a subject in which you are not thoroughly grounded un-less for the purpose of obtaining in-formation. You will only reveal that you are superficial.

“Dress neatly but not flashy. Don’t spend time powdering your nose when you might be doing important work. Above all, pity the girl who wants to be a vamp. There’s only one place where the vamp gets away with it, and that’s on the screen.

“Remember to be pleasant at all times. The pouting girl never gets anywhere. A man can come to his office with a grouch, raise Cain generally and get by, but the minute a woman tries it she becomes a ‘hen.’

“Never overlook an opportunity to learn. When you figure you know it all, pull down the shades and get on your carpet slippers. Young or old, you are in the first stages of senility.”

Brown County Journal,

Dec. 14, 1923

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MOUNTED DEER HEAD IN

KOEHLER SHOP

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After Reading the Account of the Hunting Parties, Staged in November, 1871, Near This City, and the Description of Bags of Deer, Which Were Brought in, Eugene Koehler Shows Journal Scribe Deer Head Which Has History.

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Eugene Koehler, who conducts the popular tonsorial parlor in the Gebser building, and who is full of facts as well as fancies of the early history of this region, read with considerable interest the account of two deer hunts staged in this vicinity during the early winter of 1871, and published in the Journal last week.

Mr. Koehler informs us that the deer head, which hangs in the rear of his shop, is the head of one of the animals shot during the Milford hunt. The head has considerable history.

A number of the hunters turned the head over to Julius Berndt, wellknown as a taxidermist. Following completion of the work of art, it was presented to Dr. Alb. Mueller, who for many years was associated with Dr. Carl Weschcke. Dr. Mueller, finally decided to return to his native land, Switzerland, to pass his declining years and before his departure, presented the head to his good friend, Jos. Schmucker.

Acquired by Koehler.

Following the demise of Mr. Schmucker, the head, which had hung in the Schmucker saloon for many years, was taken to the Schmucker residence by Mrs. Schmucker. Mr. Koehler called at the home one day and noticing the deer head, asked Mrs. Schmucker if she would part with it. She stated she did not know what to do with the relic, and disposed of it to Mr. Koehler for a small sum. It has hung in the Koehler shop ever since. Mr. Koehler expects, if a suitable place is secured for relics of former days, to turn it over at some future date for display and the edification of generations to come, as the head of the last deer, which was killed in this region.

It is a beautiful specimen of the taxidermist’s art, and would make a valuable addition to a collection of curios of the pioneer days.

Brown County Journal,

Dec 14, 1923